Zahara Hill is a platforms editor for MSNBC Digital. She previously worked as a front page editor for HuffPost.
Black history has long been the target of white ire. But more recently, it has found itself subjected to the whims of politically aimless conservatives, who have put it at the top of their hit list in their ridiculous culture wars. For the next month, The ReidOut Blog will examine America’s turbulent relationship with Black stories by holding Black history’s greatest foes accountable and highlighting the absurdity of the effort to censor the legacies of Black Americans.
They’re up against the inanities of public figures like Ye, who famously said slavery was a choice. And if you let Nikki Haley tell it, acknowledging that it existed at all might as well be, too. But the problem goes beyond the dazed, confused and in denial when powerful politicians like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis make calculated efforts to dictate which facets of history are accessible to students.
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